Physiological anorexia

Introduction Physiological anorexia occurs when the baby does not eat milk from March to April, and the baby's temporary anorexia is called "physiological anorexia." Eating habits can cause physiological disorders, make patients feel uncomfortable while eating, and destroy the enjoyment and satisfaction of normal diet, which in turn aggravates the anorexia process. The patient will continue to think that he is too fat because he does not follow the facts. This distortion of the body image may cause him to fear the things she is afraid of because of her horror. Patients may also cause amenorrhea, constipation, hypotension, bradycardia and anemia due to malnutrition.

Cause

The phenomenon of physiological anorexia is mainly due to the increased activity of the neck muscles when the baby is 3 to 4 months old, and the babys external environment is very curious, so there will be a small change around it. His attention made him no longer concentrate on breastfeeding. The treatment of anorexia in children is mainly to eliminate bad psychological factors and help children to build happy mood, promote the secretion function and digestive function of gastrointestinal glands, and increase the attractiveness of food appearance and taste.

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For babies 2 months ago, breastfeeding is usually very focused. When you are hungry, you cry, you sleep when you are full, and your weight increases rapidly. After 3 months of age, most babies begin to stop eating milk, but stop eating and sometimes making a sound. There are even more curious babies who stop sucking milk as long as there are sounds around them and people move around. This situation is very common in the process of childcare, which is called "physiological anorexia" in medicine. Infants only temporarily reduce the amount of milk, usually recovering naturally in about 1 month.

Differential diagnosis

Differential diagnosis of physiological anorexia:

1, emotional anorexia: anorexia nervosa, also known as anorexia nervosa, referred to as anorexia, it is a kind of patient's own intentional weight loss significantly below the normal physiological standard weight, and try to maintain this state of a kind Psychophysiological disorders.

2, summer anorexia: summer anorexia, refers to the child's loss of appetite, appetite does not open, even the normal meals that you usually like to eat do not want to eat, and the child's whole body organs have no abnormal lesions.

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